Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precisely what the new law would do not even its sponsors knew. Broadly it empowered the Texas Railroad Commission to prorate oil and gas production in the different pools and prevent "physical waste." Violators of the Commission's orders may be punished in court. No provision was made, however...
Last September President Hoover turned down the spigot on U. S. immigra- tion to conserve U. S. jobs for U. S. residents. Consuls were instructed to refuse passport visas to aliens who on arrival were likely to become public charges. If a would-be immigrant boasted of work awaiting him...
To avoid the Federal inheritance tax many a wealthy man used to deed over most of his property to his intended heirs when he felt death overtaking him. So widespread became this type of tax evasion that Congress in 1926 amended the Internal Revenue Laws by inserting a provision (Section...
When President Hoover signed the tariff act with six gold pens, he promised to make liberal use of its flexibility provision to eliminate "inequalities and injustices." During the law's first year the Commission was asked to investigate 193 commodities with a view to rate changes.
Month ago the 14th season of free concerts began, called for the first time the Daniel Guggenheim Memorial Concerts in honor of the mining tycoon, who with his brother Murry sponsored them during his lifetime and after his death last September (TIME, Oct. 6) left provision for their perpetuation. A...